Sunday, September 13, 2026

The Great Performer Gladys Knight Announces End of Touring: “Time for the Midnight Train to Make Just a Few More Stops”

Share

★ Make Showbiz411 your Preferred Source on Google

Her fans are begging her to call it a day.

Her family, estranged from her, would like to see their mother and grandmother.

Now Gladys Knight, one of the greatest singers and performers in history, says she will call it quits soon.

She says after talking with her team, it’s “Time for the Midnight Train to Make Just a Few More Stops.”

The train should make no more stops, starting now. Gladys’s legacy is secure, but her health is not. Fans who attend her shows have been posting videos everywhere of a disoriented senior citizen who is being steered on stage by background singers.

This is not fair to Gladys, who has worked for 75 years and deserves to be respected and live in a dignified way.

Please, Gladys’s team, let the Midnight Train stop now. Gladys has three shows left. Please cancel them. They’re unnecessary. Let this woman get medical attention.

Donate to Showbiz411.com

Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what's going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.
Thank you


Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Read more

In Other News